By the name Edeko are considered three contemporaneous historical figures, whom some scholars identified as one:
The Hunnic name Έδέκων (Edekon) Otto Maenchen-Helfen considered to be of Germanic or Germanized origin, but did not mention any derivation.
Omeljan Pritsak derived it from Old Turkic verbal root *edär- (to pursue, to follow), and deverbal noun suffix κων (kun < r-k < r-g < *gun). The reconstructed form is *edäkün (< *edär-kün; "follower, retainer").